Install shell script for GNUstep

[Uli Kusterer]

Hi,

 Back when I was struggling trying to get GNUstep to install on my Mac, 
I also worked on writing a shell script that performs all the steps 
indicated in my guide. I wanted to make it more robust and fix some of 
the oddities I occasionally encountered, but sadly I didn't have the 
time.

 Since it doesn't look like I'll be having much more time to work on 
this (more interesting and/or paying projects beckon), I thought I'll 
release what's there. I'm releasing this in the Public Domain. It's at:

   http://www.zathras.de/gnustep_install.zip

Basically, it's modeled after the GNUDarwin install script: It asks a 
few questions at startup about the general configuration, then tries to 
download needed components, and then tries to do all the things needed 
to install GNUstep, like compiling a GCC from source, and then all of 
GNUstep.

The version for MacOS X should work, except for some not reliably 
reproducible issues I had compiling PC/Gorm. There's also a version for 
Darwin, with which I had more problems as it didn't recognize my WLAN 
card, and I couldn't find a package manager offhand.

It's very modular, and comes with a readme for people who want to adapt 
it to other platforms.

I hope it's of use to someone. If this script was used as the starting 
point for getting GNUstep on other platforms, it would significantly 
lower the entry barrier for new developers coming to the project.

-- Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de